#doctor who library

[dandelionjack]

My Name Is Meven Stoffat I Like To Write About Digital Afterlives. What If You Died Yeah And Basically Somebody Uploaded Your Consciousness To The Cloud And You Became A Ghost Online? What A Fascinating Concept I’m Going To Include It In Every Episode From Now One. Four Point Five Billion Times

[nipuni]

Silence in the library

A speedpaint video of this will be available at my Patreon on february 1st!

[lesbicosmos]

"are you my mummy?" 🤝 "hey, who turned out the lights?" 🤝 "my arms are too long."

the holy trinity of doctor who quotes that sound fairly normal out of context but are actually mildly terrifying

[dontbotheraziraphale]

ok but for real "my arms are too long" is up there with "hey who turned out the lights" as most cursed lines in doctor who history

[thinkdoctorriver]

The Husbands of River Song // Silence in the Library

[expelliarmus]

[le-moons]

And he has 2 hearts

[ravenluckarts]

Doodle of River from my favourite episode

[gallifreyanhotfive]

Brilliant. Fifteen, you can bring a dead butterfly back to life.

Now go get your wife out of that goddamn Library.

[florida3exclamationpoints]

River + The Doctor + text posts pt. 5/?

[figtreegif]

Wardrobe // Donna Noble (Catherine Tate) // Doctor Who Season 4 (2008) + specials

[thekinglemingle]

Proposal for Big Finish: David Tennant and Alex Kingston low stakes adventure, with the twist being that it's retired Fourteen not Ten and he can't let River realise that he knows their whole deal. He so desperately wants to tell her how much he misses her, but he can't spoil the existence of the second regeneration cycle and ruin Twelve's surprise.

And that's why River thinks she's seen Ten much older than he was in the library.

[masterreborn]

conceptually the introduction of river song as a character fucking slaps and i’m never gonna get over it. like. imagine you meet someone for the first time, except she knows everything about you, even the things you’ve never told anyone before. she touches your face and looks at you like you hung the stars themselves. and then she sacrifices herself so you can live — “time can be rewritten,” you tell her, and she says, “not those times. not one line. don’t you dare.” you watch her die and it hurts in the strangest way, because you didn’t know her, not really. but you will, someday. all you can do is wait until your paths cross again.

[notyoujamie]

[giphit]

dude whatever you think about moffat's ability when it comes to showrunning or crafting a concrete narrative, there is no doubt that he is the absolute best at creating crazy cool sci-fi concepts for doctor who.

like...

healing nanobots that pick up a damaged child looking for his mother as the template, proceeding to spread that template to any human they come into contact with

a spaceship that has weird inconsistent time windows into pre revolutionary france

statues that only move when you're not looking. when they touch you, you get transported back in time so that they can leech off of your life energy that, now in the current time, is fully depleted

not just the vashta nerada which are terrifying but also in the library episodes is a concept where a character's communicator, which works via neural link, creates echoes of the character's personality and voice that you can hear for a period after they die(the scene where they first show this is still one of the most heartbreaking and messed up concepts i've seen in the show)

heaven sent

a super huge colony spaceship whose time is dilated by a black hole, causing top of the ship to move slower in time than the bottom of the ship leading to the bottom levels of the ship having lived multiple generations in what would be hours for the top of the ship

river song's entire life

and most recently, a hotel that creates time windows into hotel rooms from various periods across time, allowing residents to pick and choose any time period to stay in as a tourist

there are a lot more but these are the personal highlights for me.

the man is also just generally a genius at using time travel to tell stories.

[thekingofspin]

thinking about the time in the angels take manhattan when river said to the doctor "that's professor song to you" and the doctors face is a look if pure fear and pain because he knows he's running out of time.